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OpenStats City Score, ranking history, and local readings for Barrie.
Barrie sits at City Score rank #4 with a standing of 67%, from 8 of 8 open-data pillars (tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, growth, safety). Missing pillars score at median standing so thin coverage cannot inflate the rank. The chart below shows how that standing moves year to year.
Latest owned placements: building permit value rank #30 of 172 (2025); indoor radon rank #74 of 117 at 87 Bq/m³ survey mean; residential mill rate rank #30 of 172 (14.12 mill rate). Full tables and method notes live on each study edition; atlas readings for the same slug open from the topic buttons.
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Documented pro, junior, university, and high-school teams tied to Barrie.
Published residential mill-rate context for Barrie.
The flagship Kempenfelt Bay beach on Lakeshore Drive. Lifeguards, buoy lines, and boardwalk access make it the default summer meet-up.
Historic neighbourhood and transit-station area with dedicated heritage planning. The place name locals use when GO and older streets share
Centennial Beach posts lifeguard hours and anchors an accessibility mat from the boardwalk during the guard season.
Where Barrie sits in published building-permit figures for July 2026.
Barrie faces Kempenfelt Bay, and the waterfront is the civic mirror locals check first. Centennial Beach on Lakeshore Drive and Johnson's Beach carry the lifeguard seasons; Minet's Point Beach and Tyndale Beach fill out the City's four main public shores. Summer rules get specific here: digital waterfront parking permits, swim buoy lines, and boardwalk access mats at Centennial when lifeguards are on. Lampman Lane splash pad handles the landlubber heat, while Holly Community Park waits on a new water-play build tied to the Peggy Hill Team Community Centre. Heritage Park already runs a water feature on the same City beaches page.
Away from the sand, Barrie Transit covers the local bus grid and GO Transit sits beside it in City transportation pages for the Toronto-direction commute. Allandale keeps a heritage file as a Major Transit Station Area, so station-neighbourhood talk is not generic suburb language. Service Barrie is the contact brand when you need tickets, claims, or a straight answer from city hall. Heart Barrie Landmark Sign is the sponsored photo stop business pages still list. Barrie Community Sports Complex holds the outdoor-fields share of the recreation map, and Parks, Trails & Waterfront stay bundled as one resident destination set.
On the OpenStats City Score for 2026, Barrie ranks 47 of 125. Rankings aside, the hometown read is still a bay city: Kempenfelt beaches by name, Barrie Transit plus GO for the corridor, and Allandale as the station neighbourhood with its own heritage rules.
Drawn from City of Barrie, City of Barrie beaches, Barrie Transit, Allandale heritage measures.
City Score from 2016–2025 across eight open-data pillars. Individual study placements are listed in the panels below.
Each study below is its own ranking. Where a study has more than one edition for this city, the chart shows standing across those years only.
Connectivity · OpenStats
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Cities ranked by estimated best advertised download (Mbps). Anchored to the current ISED National Broadband Data vintage, then backcast along a national speed curve with city-specific fiber-arrival and 50/10 availability paths so relative ranks can change over the decade. Not a claim of audited historical hex maps for every year.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Construction · OpenStats
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Cities ranked by calendar-year building permit value. Direct rows sum Statistics Canada Table 34-10-0292-01. Cities without a direct reading use population × provincial per-capita permit intensity (estimated), so every seed city has a year-varying construction signal.
10 editions · 2016–2025
sports · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities with a Canadian Hockey League club ranked by regular-season points percentage (best club wins if several). Rank 1 = highest points %. Built from CHL standings and Wikipedia season pages. Cities without a CHL club are omitted.
8 editions · 2017–2025
Composite · OpenStats
OpenStats
Dimensional average of OpenStats open-data pillars for each panel year 2016–2025: tax, construction, connectivity, indoor air, water, seismic hazard, population growth, and crime severity. Each series is scored 0–1 within its edition; series in the same pillar are averaged, then all eight pillars are averaged with equal weight. Missing pillars score at median standing (0.5). Growth and CSI use StatCan annual tables; permits, mill rates, and broadband use live rows plus documented year-varying estimates where needed. Radon, water, and PGA may be survey/model vintages carried forward and are flagged when static for more than two years. External commercial livability lists are never inputs.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Safety · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by Statistics Canada Crime Severity Index (Table 35-10-0026-01). Rank 1 is highest CSI (worse). Values are CMA where a metro match exists, otherwise provincial CSI. Hometown pages label the grain.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Water · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by municipal drinking-water hardness (mg/L as CaCO₃). Hardness changes slowly; the atlas vintage is carried across panel years and flagged when static for more than two years.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Water · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by reported lead (µg/L) on the OpenStats water atlas. Carried across panel years until annual municipal report panels are ingested.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Health · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by Health Canada survey mean indoor radon (Bq/m³). Rank 1 is the highest mean. Decade panel years without a new survey carry the CMA survey vintage forward; they are not annual retests.
10 editions · 2016–2025
sports · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities ranked by weighted count of documented local teams (pro, junior, university, high-school hubs). Rank 1 = deepest documented sports footprint among covered seed cities. Not a claim about on-field success. See sports methodology for weights and gaps.
Single edition · 2025
Only one published edition places Barrie in this study so far. Open the edition for method notes and the full table.
Growth · OpenStats
OpenStats
Cities ranked by year-over-year population growth from Statistics Canada annual CSD estimates (Table 17-10-0155-01). Rank 1 is fastest growth. A few places without a clean CSD match use a provincial-path estimate anchored to seed population.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Property tax · OpenStats
OpenStats
Municipalities ranked by residential mill rate. Rank 1 is the highest rate. Published municipal years are used when available; gaps are interpolated or follow the provincial median path so the tax pillar moves year to year for every city.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Hazards · OpenStats
OpenStats
Communities ranked by NRCan peak ground acceleration (higher = stronger shaking hazard). Rank 1 is highest PGA. The seismic model is multi-year; values are carried across the City Score panel and flagged as static until NRCan publishes a new generation.
10 editions · 2016–2025
Livability
MoneySense
Annual composite ranking of Canadian municipalities on economy, housing, crime, health, and weather.
4 editions · 2014–2018
Distinctive local notes and places, each linked to its source.
The City maintains four main beaches on Kempenfelt Bay: Centennial, Johnson's, Minet's Point, and Tyndale.
Centennial Beach posts lifeguard hours and anchors an accessibility mat from the boardwalk during the guard season.
City transportation navigation lists Barrie Transit and GO Transit as paired mobility options.
Allandale is planned as a Major Transit Station Area with its own heritage urban-design measures.
The flagship Kempenfelt Bay beach on Lakeshore Drive. Lifeguards, buoy lines, and boardwalk access make it the default summer meet-up.
The other lifeguarded bay beach, at 2 Johnson Street. Paired with Centennial whenever waterfront season talk starts.
Historic neighbourhood and transit-station area with dedicated heritage planning. The place name locals use when GO and older streets share a sentence.
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